"Lepanto" was written when Chesterton was still in school. It tells about the Battle of Lepanto, in which the vastly outnumbered Holy League, led by an illegimately born prince, beat the Ottoman Empire's galleys, thus helping change the course of history.

It also refers to the historical fact that Cervantes, once a prisoner in the Ottoman galleys, fought in the great and chivalrous Battle of Lepanto... and then went home and wrote Don Quixote.


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Artist/Composer: G.K. Chesterton
Date: 2006-06-17
Source: "Lepanto", 1911
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Sea

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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